BEN STEIN

Fats finally put up a link to the Stein article he read on the air today. It appeared in the American Spectator, the wingnut rag that David Brock used to write for before he came to his senses.

Stein begins with this sentence:

Now for a few thoughts about the war in Iraq and historic context.

He's going to later claim that FDR, JFK and LBJ committed greater blunders, so Fredo's mistake is no big deal. As far as JFK and LBJ go, the loss in Vietnam did not lead to a decrease in our national security but the loss in Iraq certainly has. In fact, a military historian not named Hanson has decribed Iraq as the greatest blunder since Biblical times. Although FDR did not live to see the successful conclusion of WW 2, let's take a look at the respective time frames:

WW 2
Begin 12/7/41
End 8/15/45
TOTAL DAYS
1347

WOT
Begin 9/11/01
TO DATE
1726

DIFFERENCE: 379 DAYS

Osama has lived over a year longer than Hitler or Mussolini.

Stein's next sentence is designed to make people believe that only those on the Left are critical of the Iraq War:

First, I keep running into men and women of the left who tell me that going into Iraq unprepared and undermanned and under-armed was the worst foreign policy and defense mistake this government has ever made.


This dishonestly ignores all the criticism from the Right but that is typical wingnut thinking, best summarized as "Get Lefty."